Classroom of the future takes shape at WSU— and it’s round — from djc.com by Parke Rhoads
(Seattle, WA, USA) The Digital Classroom Building will showcase the latest in technology, including a round learning hall where instructors stand below a 360-degree ring of display screens.
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The striking new 80,000 square foot facility will serve as a gateway, showcase venue and catalyst for WSU’s campus-wide initiative to address the tremendous advances that have been made in understanding the way students learn in the 21st century.
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With this project we are offering a “true path” to innovation: classroom technology that is designed around the institution’s vision for pedagogy in the future (and not the other way around.)
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The active learning hall is a rounded open-floor space where lecturers can feel close and connected to participants, roaming freely and able to collaborate within an innovative technology-rich environment.
This space addresses evolving struggles with the traditional large-seat auditorium in a modern teaching environment. By placing the instructor in the middle, surrounded by students in fewer rows, the sense of communal learning is strengthened.
A 360-degree ring of display screens helps to further the experience of shared storytelling and discovery, and additional technology for wireless sharing of screens allows for some teaming and student-contribution activities that have never been possible before.
Also see:
- 9 design concepts for creating collaborative student spaces on campus — from ecampusnews.com by Carly Morales
The next step in improving students’ experience in higher ed may be in rebuilding campus spaces for collaboration and data sharing
Excerpt:
According to a new study, schools need to create layered, blended and personalized places that support a variety of interactions and digital platforms, rather than creating specialized spaces, such as computer labs. Furthermore, the study found that mobility has transformed the way students learn, and therefore requires careful attention to physical spaces now more than ever.
- Campus Spotlight: A hearty investment — from universitybusiness.co.uk
A year after opening its doors, Sheffield Hallam’s £27m Heart of the Campus development celebrates its student experience success
Also, here’s an interesting item:
- New Collaboration System Gives Multiple Students Access to Shared Display — from campustechnology.com by Michael Hart
The Nureva Span system lets students create content on their devices and then move it to a larger digital display board.
